C. Michael Pilato wrote: > Julian Foad wrote: > > What about the forum interface? > > > > It's a bit late to say this, but it's just occurred to me that the old > > list had a forum interface. Personally I don't use those much, but for > > people looking to post a first question or answer a question while > > browsing, that is probably very valuable. > > > > What is our replacement for that functionality, and can we get it > > clearly linked from <http://subversion.apache.org/mailing-lists.html> > > before closing down the old service? > > The value of CollabNet's new Discussion Services (once you overlooked the > small detail that for many folks that just didn't work at all) was that the > forums were tightly bound to a real mailing list. You could start a thread > in email, continue it via the UI if you were away from your personal > computer, etc. Most importantly, you didn't have to constantly (and > manually) monitor the forum UI for new posts -- just subscribe to the > mailing list. So, if our "replacement" is merely a discussion forum with no > tight binding to the mailing list, I'd be tempted to suggest not bothering > with it at all.
Yes, I agree. The CollabNet Discussion Services are rather good now that most of the bugs have been fixed. I just hope we don't cause too much hurt to the community by this move away. The users need all the help they can get. If we can find any user-friendly way of reading and posting to the list via a web browser, I still think it would be worth linking to it from the mailing lists help page. The GMane "blog" interface allows posting: <http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.devel> So does its news-like threaded interface, <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.devel>, via a "Followup" option in a drop-down menu, although that only sometimes responds to my clicks. How about we point to one of those? - Julian
